Hey everyone, so with black friday coming up I stumbled upon a great deal for a Macbook Air 15.

My main concern is the longevity of this machine, I was looking into the 16-inch Macbook Pro since it’s safe to assume it’ll last you between 6-10 years if you take real good care of it. But I do wonder, with a fanless, thin machine like this one, with those specific specs I mentioned, how long do you think this laptop will last? Important to mention:

My main concern is the longevity of this machine, I was looking into the 16-inch Macbook Pro since it’s safe to assume it’ll last you between 6-10 years if you take really good care of it. But I do wonder, with a fanless, thin machine like this one, with those specific specs I mentioned, how long do you think this laptop will last? Important to mention:

I’ll be using the laptop for both personal use and work. I usually run a bunch of Chrome tabs at once, 2 or 3 apps at once running in the background. When doing personal stuff, I’d love to edit vacation family movies, manage my future small business start-up, and travel.

Maaaaybe I install a virtual machine or some ps2-ps3 emulators in the future just for fun or for whenever I travel (I often visit the mountains in France, and villages often don’t have WiFi around).

Anyways, thanks for your time and patience!

  • Wild-subnet@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I mean no one has an M series MacBook for more than 3 years yet so there’s a bit of an unknown here. However, the engineering on these things leans towards “a very long time”. They run cooler and the same family of chips have powered iDevices, some of which have had 7-10 year lifespans already. Think about an iPad which get used daily, for example.

    A MacBook Air doesn’t even have a fan that could break. Seems likely to last a long time. The monitor hinge is probably the part most likely to fail here.